Q 01/05

In Kingdom, a minister takes Xin's best friend Piao from their village to the royal palace to serve as what?

A) The king's food taster

B) The king's body double

C) The prince's riding tutor

D) A palace stable hand

Answer · why

B) The king's body double

The king's body double was the job, offered because Piao looked identical to Ying Zheng. He dies of wounds from an assassin, and his last words send X...

Q 02/05

Kingdom's boy king Ying Zheng is based on the real ruler who unified China in 221 BC under which name?

A) Qin Shi Huang

B) Emperor Wu of Han

C) Kublai Khan

D) Tang Taizong

Answer · why

A) Qin Shi Huang

Qin Shi Huang was China's first emperor. He invented the word for emperor himself rather than reuse the old title for a king, and Chinese rulers kept ...

Q 03/05

Kingdom's author wanted the usurping prince in the 2019 live-action film modeled on which Game of Thrones character?

A) Ramsay Bolton

B) Viserys Targaryen

C) Tywin Lannister

D) Joffrey Baratheon

Answer · why

D) Joffrey Baratheon

Joffrey Baratheon was the model he insisted on. The author had followed Game of Thrones since its fourth season and joined a roundtable with its two s...

Q 04/05

The real Meng Tian, Kingdom's flamboyant young commander, later led 300,000 men north and began work on which landmark?

A) The Grand Canal

B) The Silk Road

C) The Great Wall

D) The Forbidden City

Answer · why

C) The Great Wall

The Great Wall grew out of the defences he started after driving the northern nomads back. A forged imperial letter later forced him to take his own l...

Q 05/05

As the mortally wounded General Wang Qi dies in Kingdom, which of his weapons does he hand to Xin?

A) His glaive

B) His longbow

C) His twin swords

D) His war hammer

Answer · why

A) His glaive

His glaive passes to Xin moments before the general dies on horseback. With it comes a refusal: he cannot train the boy, who must learn from the battl...